Resilient Climate Translation Lead

Employment Type: Full-time, aligned with ARIA’s active commitment to the Forecasting Tipping Points programme; we are open to discussing an arrangement of 4 days per week, minimum

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From climate change to AI, society faces enormous challenges and opportunities that can be uniquely addressed through science and technology. ARIA was created to activate the UK’s world-class R&D in new ways, so we can meet these head on.

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ARIA’s Forecasting Tipping Points programme aims to create a sustained, public-good early warning system for climate tipping points. It is bringing together new approaches to ocean observation, forecasting and decision-focused climate evidence, initially centred on the North Atlantic subpolar gyre, so that governments, communities and other decision-makers can act earlier and with greater confidence.

With an ambitious portfolio of R&D Creators established across startups, academia, and non-profit R&D organisations, the programme is moving from advancing the underlying science and technology to demonstrating an integrated capability that people and institutions can trust, use and sustain. That requires working backwards from consequential decisions, integrating complex systems, building legitimacy with affected communities and creating an institutional and financing model that can preserve essential public goods over the long term.

As Resilient Climate Translation Lead, your primary responsibility will be to lead this translation effort for Forecasting Tipping Points. You will be the Programme Directors’ principal translation delivery partner: co-specifying the early warning system minimum viable product (MVP), leading user and institutional discovery, delivering translation milestones and supporting Creator teams to build compelling propositions and continuity plans. Alongside this core remit, you will cultivate partnerships across ARIA’s wider climate programmes, identifying users, strategic partners, co-funders and routes to adoption that can accelerate their impact.